Nation in Focus

January 3, 2014

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Mother Patricia Mary, right, and nurse Friary Nguyen visit 99-year-old resident Helen Reichenbach in her room at the Mullen Home for the Aged, run by Little Sisters of the Poor, in Denver, Thursday Jan. 2, 2014. Acting at the request of Little Sisters of the Poor, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday Dec. 31, 2013, temporarily blocked the Obama administration from forcing some religious-affiliated groups to provide health insurance coverage of birth control or face penalties as part of the Affordable Care Act. The stay was issued just hours before the requirement was to go into effect on New Year's Day. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Mother Patricia Mary, right, and nurse Friary Nguyen visit 99-year-old resident Helen Reichenbach in her room at the Mullen Home for the Aged, run by Little Sisters of the Poor, in Denver, Thursday Jan. 2, 2014. Acting at the request of Little Sisters of the Poor, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday Dec. 31, 2013, temporarily blocked the Obama administration from forcing some religious-affiliated groups to provide health insurance coverage of birth control or face penalties as part of the Affordable Care Act. The stay was issued just hours before the requirement was to go into effect on New Year's Day. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)